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Heart FailureNCT06478732

HeartMed-HF Digital Therapeutics Improves Exercise Capacity in CHF Patients After AMI

A study testing health services in people with Heart Failure, run by The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University.

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Trial summary

Chronic heart failure (HF) is a severe manifestation and terminal stage of various cardiovascular diseases, with high incidence and mortality rates. Myocardial infarction (MI) is currently one of the most common and significant causes of HF globally. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 75 years
Conditions the study is for
Heart Failure
What is being tested?
health services
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
710 participants
Where
No sites listed yet
Study dates
30 Jul 2024to 31 Dec 2026
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 75 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Be of either sex with age ≥ 18 years and ≤ 75 years.
  • Hospitalization due to AMI (onset to randomization ≤ 2 weeks), including STEMI and NSTEMI.
  • Meeting the diagnostic criteria for chronic HF, including:
  • Symptoms and/or signs of heart failure; (2) LVEF (Simpson's method) < 50%, and NT-proBNP ≥ 125pg/mL before enrollment. 4. Patients must be willing to comply with the study protocol and give the informed consent.

Who cannot join

  • Contraindications to cardiopulmonary exercise testing (bicycle ergometer) or 6-minute walking test.
  • Pregnancy, breastfeeding, or planning pregnacy within 1 year.
  • Patients who have undergone mechanical circulatory support (including intra-aortic balloon pump, Impella, ECMO, etc.) or endotracheal intubation.
  • History of viral cardiomytis or non-ischemic cardiomyopathy including dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, perinatal cardiomyopathy, etc.
  • Moderate to severe valvular heart disease or a history of valve replacement.
  • Severe liver dysfunction [ALT ≥ 3 times the upper limit of normal range or renal dysfunction (eGFR<60 mL /min/1.73m2)].
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  • Malignant tumors or other diseases, with expected life expectancy <1 year.
  • Inability to use smartphones or communicate with the management team for any reason.
  • Enrolled in other clinical trials.
  • Any other clinical conditions unsuitable for this study by the investigator.

Trial locations and contacts

No sites are listed yet. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

Chunjian Li, PHD contact

13701465229

lijay@njmu.edu.cn

Tian Wu, MD contact

15651751103

wu_tian97@163.com

About this study

Official title: HeartMed-HF Digital Therapeutics Improves Exercise Capacity in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure After Acute Myocardial Infarction: an International, Multi-center, Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Chronic heart failure (HF) is a severe manifestation and terminal stage of various cardiovascular diseases, with high incidence and mortality rates. Myocardial infarction (MI) is currently one of the most common and significant causes of HF globally. The occurrence of HF after MI significantly increases the mortality risk for patients. Actively controlling risk factors and strengthening outpatient management of HF patients post-MI are crucial for alleviating clinical symptoms and enhancing exercise capacity. Recently, digital health interventions (DHI) have shown promising potential in managing cardiovascular disease patients. However, the application in patients with HF post-MI has not been well-reported. Therefore, this study independently and innovatively designed the HeartMed-HF digital therapeutics to demonstrate its effectiveness and safety in patients with HF after MI.

Read the detailed description

Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is caused by acute occlusion of the coronary artery and interruption of blood flow, which leads to myocardium necrosis in the blood supply area of the culprit vessel. AMI can lead to the loss of cardiomyocytes, which in turn causes ventricular enlargement, myocardial hypertrophy, eventually leading to the decline of cardiac function. In severe cases,AMI may even result in acute or chronic heart failure (HF). Patients with HF after MI have significantly decreased quality of life, high mortality and poor clinical prognosis. Studies have shown that the incidence of HF in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is about 21.8%, and the 30-day mortality rate of patients with HF after MI is up to 25%. The occurrence of HF after MI is associated with various factors. Advanced age, hypertension, diabetes, renal insufficiency, rapid heart rate, atrial fibrillation (AF), low left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), stroke are all risk factors. Actively controlling these factors is crucial. However, due to the lack of medical knowledge, poor self-mobility among HF patients, outpatient management faces severe challenges. Therefore, strengthening outpatient management for patients with HF after MI is of great significance in alleviating clinical symptoms and improving patients' exercise capacity.

Recently, the digital health intervention (DHI) industry composed of internet, artificial intelligence (AI), mobile terminals and wearable devices has developed rapidly worldwide, which plays an important role in health care. DHI has shown promising prospects in the management of cardiovascular diseases. It can be used for AF screening, blood pressure management, and reducing mortality in HF patients, among other applications. However, the use in patients with HF after MI lacks large-scale evidence-based medical support.

Therefore, this study has independently designed the HeartMed-HF digital heart failure clinical management system for patients with HF after MI. The system monitors patients' weight, heart rate, blood pressure, fluid intake and output, and other HF evaluation indicators at home using wearable devices. Combining data from patients' medical histories, laboratory test results, and surgical records, the system uses AI algorithms to generate personalized outpatient HF management plans, achieving precise home-based clinical management for patients. The core management components include health education, symptom management, continuous monitoring, risk warning, medication management, and cardiac exercise rehabilitation. Additionally, the study will form a comprehensive clinical management team consisting of physician assistants, rehabilitation trainers, nutritionists, psychologists, and health managers. Through an internet platform and mobile terminals, the system closely connects patients and doctors, extending inpatient treatment to the home and realizing a closed-loop clinical management model that integrates real-time monitoring, early warning, and timely intervention.

Conditions
Heart Failure
Being tested
health services
Keywords
heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, digital therapeutics
Medical subject headings
Heart Failure

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • health servicesOther

    Implement comprehensive heart failure management for patients in the experimental group using the HeartMed-HF digital therapy

Study groups in NCT06478732
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
the experimental groupExperimentalreceive comprehensive heart failure management
Receives: Other: health services
the controlled groupNo interventionreceive the current outpatient follow-up management

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Peak oxygen uptake (peak VO2)

    Using cardiopulmonary exercise testing to measure peak VO2

    Measured: 1 year

Secondary outcomes (8)
  1. 6-minute walking test

    Using 6-minute walking test to evaluate exercise tolerance.

    Measured: 1 year

  2. Echocardiographic indexes

    Left ventricular end-systolic volume (LVESV), left ventricular diastolic volume (LVEDV), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).

    Measured: 1 year

  3. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing

    Using cardiopulmonary exercise testing (cycle ergometer) to evaluate cardiac tolerance.

    Measured: 1 year

  4. Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)

    The PHQ-9 is a commonly used self-administered scale designed to assess the severity and frequency of depressive symptoms. It consists of 9 items covering common depressive symptoms, with each item scored from 0 to 3. The total score ranges from 0 to 27, where higher scores indicate more severe depressive symptoms.

    Measured: 1 year

  5. Generalized anxiety disorder-7 (GAD-7)

    The GAD-7 is a commonly used self-administered scale designed to assess the severity and frequency of symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder over the past 2 weeks. It consists of 7 items covering common anxiety symptoms, with each item scored from 0 to 3. The total score ranges from 0 to 21, where higher scores indicate more severe anxiety symptoms.

    Measured: 1 year

  6. Clinical events

    All-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and heart failure rehospitalization

    Measured: 1 year

  7. 36-item short form health survey (SF-36)

    The SF-36 Health Survey is a commonly used tool for assessing health-related quality of life, aiming to evaluate individuals' physical functioning and health perceptions. SF-36 consists of 36 questions covering 8 dimensions: Physical Functioning (PF), Role Physical (RP), Bodily Pain (BP), General Health (GH), Vitality (VT), Social Functioning (SF), Role Emotional (RE), and Mental Health (MH). Each question offers several options describing different health states, from which respondents choose the one that best fits their condition. Scores are calculated based on weighted allocations and specific algorithms, typically represented as numbers between 0 and 100. Higher scores indicate better health status for the respondent.

    Measured: 1 year

  8. Cost-effectiveness analysis

    Patient follow-up 1-year total costs refer to all expenses accrued during a year-long monitoring period, encompassing medical services, medication treatments, laboratory tests, imaging studies, and other directly related healthcare and non-healthcare expenditures. These costs are considered as the cost (C) . The effectiveness (E) is defined as the proportion of patients who did not experience clinical events during the 1-year follow-up. The cost-effectiveness ratio (C/E) is computed based on this measure.

    Measured: 1 year

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted27 Jun 2024
  2. Study start30 Jul 2024 (estimated)
  3. Primary completion31 Dec 2026 (estimated)
  4. Study completion31 Dec 2026 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Health services research
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
710 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT06478732
Sponsor's protocol ID
031
Status last verified
Jul 2024
First submitted
17 Jun 2024
Last updated
16 Jul 2024
Results posted
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Wang H, Chai K, Du M, Wang S, Cai JP, Li Y, Zeng P, Zhu W, Zhan S, Yang J. Prevalence and Incidence of Heart Failure Among Urban Patients in China: A National Population-Based Analysis. Circ Heart Fail. 2021 Oct;14(10):e008406. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.121.008406. Epub 2021 Aug 28.

    PubMed 34455858
  • Savarese G, Becher PM, Lund LH, Seferovic P, Rosano GMC, Coats AJS. Global burden of heart failure: a comprehensive and updated review of epidemiology. Cardiovasc Res. 2023 Jan 18;118(17):3272-3287. doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvac013.

    PubMed 35150240
  • Velagaleti RS, Pencina MJ, Murabito JM, Wang TJ, Parikh NI, D'Agostino RB, Levy D, Kannel WB, Vasan RS. Long-term trends in the incidence of heart failure after myocardial infarction. Circulation. 2008 Nov 11;118(20):2057-62. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.784215. Epub 2008 Oct 27.

    PubMed 18955667
  • Cohen AB, Dorsey ER, Mathews SC, Bates DW, Safavi K. A digital health industry cohort across the health continuum. NPJ Digit Med. 2020 May 12;3:68. doi: 10.1038/s41746-020-0276-9. eCollection 2020.

    PubMed 32411829
  • Chen C, Ding S, Wang J. Digital health for aging populations. Nat Med. 2023 Jul;29(7):1623-1630. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02391-8. Epub 2023 Jul 18.

    PubMed 37464029
  • Vardas PE, Asselbergs FW, van Smeden M, Friedman P. The year in cardiovascular medicine 2021: digital health and innovation. Eur Heart J. 2022 Jan 31;43(4):271-279. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab874.

    PubMed 34974610
  • Perez MV, Mahaffey KW, Hedlin H, Rumsfeld JS, Garcia A, Ferris T, Balasubramanian V, Russo AM, Rajmane A, Cheung L, Hung G, Lee J, Kowey P, Talati N, Nag D, Gummidipundi SE, Beatty A, Hills MT, Desai S, Granger CB, Desai M, Turakhia MP; Apple Heart Study Investigators. Large-Scale Assessment of a Smartwatch to Identify Atrial Fibrillation. N Engl J Med. 2019 Nov 14;381(20):1909-1917. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1901183.

    PubMed 31722151
  • Kerwagen F, Koehler K, Vettorazzi E, Stangl V, Koehler M, Halle M, Koehler F, Stork S. Remote patient management of heart failure across the ejection fraction spectrum: A pre-specified analysis of the TIM-HF2 trial. Eur J Heart Fail. 2023 Sep;25(9):1671-1681. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.2948. Epub 2023 Jul 31.

    PubMed 37368507
  • Alshahrani NS, Hartley A, Howard J, Hajhosseiny R, Khawaja S, Seligman H, Akbari T, Alharbi BA, Bassett P, Al-Lamee R, Francis D, Kaura A, Kelshiker MA, Peters NS, Khamis R. Randomized Trial of Remote Assessment of Patients After an Acute Coronary Syndrome. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 Jun 11;83(23):2250-2259. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2024.03.398. Epub 2024 Apr 6.

    PubMed 38588928
  • McManus RJ, Little P, Stuart B, Morton K, Raftery J, Kelly J, Bradbury K, Zhang J, Zhu S, Murray E, May CR, Mair FS, Michie S, Smith P, Band R, Ogburn E, Allen J, Rice C, Nuttall J, Williams B, Yardley L; HOME BP investigators. Home and Online Management and Evaluation of Blood Pressure (HOME BP) using a digital intervention in poorly controlled hypertension: randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2021 Jan 19;372:m4858. doi: 10.1136/bmj.m4858.

    PubMed 33468518
  • Victoria-Castro AM, Martin ML, Yamamoto Y, Melchinger H, Weinstein J, Nguyen A, Lee KA, Gerber B, Calderon F, Subair L, Lee V, Williams A, Shaw M, Arora T, Garcez A, Desai NR, Ahmad T, Wilson FP. Impact of Digital Health Technology on Quality of Life in Patients With Heart Failure. JACC Heart Fail. 2024 Feb;12(2):336-348. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2023.09.022. Epub 2023 Nov 8.

    PubMed 37943227
  • Dorje T, Zhao G, Tso K, Wang J, Chen Y, Tsokey L, Tan BK, Scheer A, Jacques A, Li Z, Wang R, Chow CK, Ge J, Maiorana A. Smartphone and social media-based cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention in China (SMART-CR/SP): a parallel-group, single-blind, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Digit Health. 2019 Nov;1(7):e363-e374. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(19)30151-7. Epub 2019 Oct 10.

    PubMed 33323210
  • Treskes RW, van Winden LAM, van Keulen N, van der Velde ET, Beeres SLMA, Atsma DE, Schalij MJ. Effect of Smartphone-Enabled Health Monitoring Devices vs Regular Follow-up on Blood Pressure Control Among Patients After Myocardial Infarction: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Apr 1;3(4):e202165. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.2165.

    PubMed 32297946

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing health services in people with Heart Failure, run by The First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 10 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 16 Jul 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Chunjian Li, PHD (13701465229, lijay@njmu.edu.cn), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Peak oxygen uptake (peak VO2) (time frame: 1 year). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT06478732, which also lists 13 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 16 Jul 2024.

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